Loretta Schoen Archive - Surviving Medical Mayhem

An Unhallowed Christmas without Thanksgiving

Loretta Schoen 21st November 2014

This morning on my walk I saw Christmas lights adorning the trim on a house and a blow up Santa Claus already poised in a yard. Really? It’s not even Thanksgiving yet. With Halloween being

The PB&J Sandwich

Loretta Schoen 14th November 2014

While walking the dogs I ran into a neighbor who had recently brought her mother to live with her. I asked her how she was doing. Between homeschooling her ten year old and caring for

Ignore or Explore?

Loretta Schoen 07th November 2014

Why was I more freaked out over having a biopsy of a blemish on my scalp than I was over my lumpectomy, or my coronary artery bypass? It had been a few years since I

A Chance Encounter

Loretta Schoen 30th October 2014

It was a chance encounter. I had brought my friend to the outpatient surgical center for a procedure. While in the waiting room a young man sat in the chair next to me. He had

Setting Priorities

Loretta Schoen 25th October 2014

Patrick Morley has done it again, He condenses all of life’s infinite decisions and distractions to a simple idea. This is a good question for all of us to ponder and to set our priorities.

Gleaning a Mary Spirit Amidst a Martha Heart

Loretta Schoen 24th October 2014

Luke 10:38-42The Message (MSG) Mary and Martha As they continued their travel, Jesus entered a village. A woman by the name of Martha welcomed him and made him feel quite at home. She had a

When We Serve, We Become Served

Loretta Schoen 16th October 2014

So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you

Define Success

Loretta Schoen 03rd October 2014

Most of you reading this know that I have written a book which I am trying to publish. It’s been a nine year birthing process and like a mother-to-be in her final trimester; I am

The “Sling Season”

Loretta Schoen 25th September 2014

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NRSV) This past week Thad was given the go-ahead to stop wearing the “Transformer” Shoulder Sling! After six weeks

Use It or Lose It

Loretta Schoen 19th September 2014

I often quip that Thad and I need to remain a team because it takes two of us to make one fully functioning brain. We will enter a room and can’t remember why we went

“If You Can Laugh at It – You Can Deal With It” – Joan Rivers

Loretta Schoen 11th September 2014

Within the last month the world has lost two great comedians – Robbin Williams and Joan Rivers. This means we are going to have to work twice as hard to keep laughter in our lives

A Humorous Look at Aging

Loretta Schoen 06th September 2014

http://youtu.be/LR2qZ0A8vic Published on May 30, 2014 Part Two Senior Conference On Aging. Held at the First Church of the Nazarene of Pasadena. Keynote Speaker Fritz Coleman NBC4’s weathercaster is a Southern California broadcasting icon.

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